The recent success recorded by Ibrahim Adejuwon Odumboni is a clear indication that vision is an integral part of governance. Many thanks to Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu, who appointed him as the head honcho of the Lagos Waste Management Authority LAWMA. His dream for a cleaner Lagos is currently turning into reality. Despite being a trained banker with over 18 years of work experience in private and retail banking, analytical skills, wealth and asset management, strategic planning and change management, the University College and International Business Economics Masters from Bristol Business School UK is currently rewriting the narrative as Lagos is gradually taking shape away from the filth we saw a few years ago.
Under his watch, the agency has recorded efficiency in waste management evacuation and recycling with the distribution of waste bin at a strategic location by also partnering with the private sector on how to ensure their environment is kept clean and garbage is kept safe to avoid an outbreak of disease. Recently Odumboni and his team launched a project tagged ‘Adopt-A-Bin’. The initiative is a follow-up to LAWMA’s strategic recycling campaign for the resident to containerize their waste in bins of several colour to ensure unnecessary exposure to waste and also avoid outbreaks of disease or toxins to the environment.
The Statistics graduate from the University of Ibadan also introduces cutting-edge innovation to waste management that will help to avert the disaster of ocean surges often caused by improper disposal of non-bio-degradable, such as plastics and other environmental challenges.